Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the wave of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel is a “serious and escalating problem,” and admitted the Home Office has been too slow to process asylum claims.
Almost 40,000 people have crossed the Channel this year in small boats, including 12,000 people from Albania, a peaceful country with a human rights record which is on a par with most of its neighbours in Eastern Europe.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman—who was appointed in September by former Prime Minister Liz Truss, resigned, and was then reappointed by Sunak on Oct. 25—has been criticised for her handling of the migrant crisis, and especially the Manston processing centre in Kent….